Community Facilitation Officer

1.    Mobilizing and facilitating 

•    Develop and maintain good relationships with the community; 
•    Ensure, promote and facilitate that the principles of child protection and child participation are integrated into all project activities;
•    Meet frequently with the staff to organize project implementation planning and monitor execution including discussing and making improvements to projects;
•    Coordinate and follow up to ensure optimal participation of the technical officers especially related to competency and capacity building; 
•    Participate in the development of plans to guide the competency and capacity building process including the retention of knowledge and skills;

Result: Active participation in projects as a result of good mobilization and facilitation.

2.    Involvement of Children, youth, parents and caregivers
•    Ensure that the activities are done in a safe, clean, hazard free;
•    Ensure that all beneficiaries have the opportunity to participate in the program and project activities in a non-discriminatory as well as age and gender sensitive and appropriate way;
•    Encourage participants to be actively involved
•    Ensure that the children feel safe, comfortable and respected;
•    Ensure that all children and caregivers are aware of any accountability/ complaint mechanisms
•    Ensure that parents/caregivers get frequent feedback about their child’s participation; 

Result: children, youth, parents, and other caregivers are active participants in all aspects of projects including decision making, monitoring and evaluation.

3.    Monitoring activities

•    Collaborate with the staff to monitor and ensure the safety of all project venues;  
•    Monitor the project activities in the field;
•    Report on the alignment of the implemented activities with the child safety policy;
•    Ensure that the targeted number is reached 

Result: Needed changes to projects are identified and implemented to ensure project quality including efficiency.

4.    Handling Administration activities

•    Support the Project Administration Officer in fulfilling their responsibilities; 
•    Collect and document the needed information for the database for research, monitoring and evaluation purposes;
•    Prepare and write weekly, biweekly or monthly reports as required by the supervisor;
•    Identify, inform and discuss any issues with his/her supervisor on a timely basis;

Result: Administration is handled in a way to ensure proper reporting, filing, and data entry

5.    Participating in program and project design 
•    Make suggestions for changes to the project design;
•    Collect information necessary for the design of programmes and projects